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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway exits Paytm at a 40% loss

TechCrunch

Berkshire Hathaway sold its shares in the Paytm-parent firm One97 Communications Friday, booking a loss of about 40% on the investment it made more than five years ago. The Warren Buffett firm invested about $260 million in Paytm in 2018, acquiring a 3% stake in the financial services startup at a valuation of about $10 […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Germany’s ITZBund is moving federal IT into the cloud

CIO

In order to avoid falling into the trap of legacy applications, Germany’s federal center for Information Technology, the ITZBund, recognized early to execute a future-oriented cloud landscape, says Christine Serrette, the federal administration’s CIO and deputy technical director. The ITZBund acts as a central IT service provider for the federal administration and operates a wide range of critical processes in the areas of transport, budget, taxes, internal security, and integration, for example

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Startups should consider hiring fractional AI officers

TechCrunch

Raphael Ouzan Contributor Share on X Raphael Ouzan is the founder and CEO of A.Team, a future-of-work company pioneering the world’s first AI-enabled team formation platform. More posts by this contributor A Developer’s Guide To The Wild West Of App Discovery The AI skills gap is real. A recent study from Randstad, the recruitment company, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Patterns of Distributed Systems is published by Pearson

Martin Fowler

During the last four years, my colleague Unmesh Joshi been developing a collection of patterns to help us all better understand how modern distributed systems work. We've been publishing drafts of these patterns on this site. Now these have turned into a book, published by Addison-Wesley in my signature series. As such, we've now removed the work-in-progress drafts from this site, and have replaced them with a catalog of pattern summaries.

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Saviu Ventures’ second fund reaches €12 million first close to back Francophone Africa startups

TechCrunch

Saviu Ventures, a VC firm targeting startups in Francophone Africa, has made an initial close of €12 million for its second fund with the backing of private investors, including French and Kenyan family offices. The VC firm aims to close the fund at between €30 million and €50 million to primarily invest in startups within […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Adobe: Thanksgiving US online sales nudge up to $5.6B; Salesforce: $31.7B spent globally

TechCrunch

Thanksgiving Thursday, when stores in the U.S. are closed and many are spending time off work, has become the de facto start of the holiday shopping season both for those looking to bargains online, and for online retailers to kick off holiday sales deals to meet that demand. But if there is a message from […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Can GenAI Do Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

This article presents a classroom experiment that compared a strategy developed by a team of MBA students in the traditional way with one developed using a virtual AI assistant, which was an interactive tool that linked a tried-and-tested strategy toolkit as a plug-in to the generative AI underlying Chat GPT. The results of the two independent processes were largely similar, with the AI-assisted strategy being, if anything, more original.

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Micro Frontends Architecture

Dzone - DevOps

What Is a Micro Frontend? Micro frontends are an architectural approach that extends the concept of microservices to the front end of web applications. In a micro frontend architecture, a complex web application is broken down into smaller, independently deployable, and maintainable units called micro frontends. Each micro frontend is responsible for a specific part of the user interface and its related functionality.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: U.S. Gov’t Revises, Seeks Input on Security Assessment Questionnaire for Software Vendors

Tenable

Uncle Sam wants your input on the latest version of the “Secure Software Development Attestation Form” that federal agencies will use to assess the security of software vendors. Plus, it’s warning cyber teams about the threats from the Rhysida and Scattered Spider cybercrime groups. In addition, there’s a new zero trust certification. And much more!

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Google Maps Routes between two places with PHP & JS

Php,Mysql,Jquery Tutorial And Interview Question

in this post, we’ll be going to implement how to draw the path on the map between two locations using Google Map Javascript API. You can use routes on Google Maps for a location-based service, a delivery tracking system, or simply helping users navigate. We’ll use the JavaScript library Direction service to draw routes between […] The post Google Maps Routes between two places with PHP & JS appeared first on Phpflow.com.

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Platform Engineering vs. DevOps: Unveiling the Power Play in Tech Evolution

TurnKey Labs

Platform Engineering and DevOps are two hype terms you can find on the pages of IT websites and blogs. The distinctions between them have become pivotal considerations for organizations charting their course through the digital frontier. As stewards of innovation and efficiency, these two methodologies stand as beacons, each with its unique principles and applications.

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Offshore Drupal Development

Mobilunity

Drupal is widely recognized as a dominant content management system (CMS) in the expansive world of web development. It offers a comprehensive solution to meet various digital requirements and is trusted by countless websites worldwide. Drupal’s reputation lies in its adaptability, scalability and impressive range of features. Drupal in a Nutshell Drupal is a popular content management system (CMS).

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Microsoft Ignite: Nine Exciting Product Announcements and Key Takeaways

Perficient

Last week, Microsoft brought together partners, customers, and thought leaders at Microsoft Ignite , its annual conference, held this year in Seattle. This year’s event featured close to 600 sessions on AI alone, which is unheard of among technology partners. Generative AI is the pinnacle of many of Microsoft’s new product announcements, including more Copilots, additional Azure features, new AI capabilities for large language models (LLMs) in Azure, and more.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Embracing Vulnerability: How Executive Coaching Unlocks Authentic Leadership

CO2 Business Leadership

In the realm of leadership, vulnerability is often perceived as a weakness. However, it’s quite the contrary. Vulnerability is a strength, a catalyst for growth and authenticity in leadership. Executive coaching plays a pivotal role in guiding leaders to not just recognize, but also embrace their vulnerabilities. In this article, we will delve into three common defense mechanisms against vulnerability – avoiding joy, perfectionism, and numbing behaviors – and explore how execut

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Economic Insights: Payment Diversity as a Retail Strategy

Women on Business

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400G: Building Bandwidth for the Next Lap

CIO

Anticipating an Explosion of Bandwidth Demand Global bandwidth demand is on an unprecedented rise. In 2022 alone, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) recorded 25% growth in international bandwidth usage, adding to a 33% compounded average growth rate that’s been steadily rising since 2017. For individual consumers, 1Gbps connectivity is now a norm while high-definition video has become ubiquitous in everything, from entertainment to security.

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Automating product description generation with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In today’s ever-evolving world of ecommerce, the influence of a compelling product description cannot be overstated. It can be the decisive factor that turns a potential visitor into a paying customer or sends them clicking off to a competitor’s site. The manual creation of these descriptions across a vast array of products is a labor-intensive process, and it can slow down the velocity of new innovation.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Causal Machine Learning for Creative Insights

Netflix Tech

A framework to identify the causal impact of successful visual components. By Billur Engin , Yinghong Lan , Grace Tang , Cristina Segalin , Kelli Griggs , Vi Iyengar Introduction At Netflix, we want our viewers to easily find TV shows and movies that resonate and engage. Our creative team helps make this happen by designing promotional artwork that best represents each title featured on our platform.

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Riding the OpenAI Rollercoaster

Cloudera

The greater tech community was front row for a high-stakes corporate saga this past weekend, complete with more plot twists than the Succession series finale. The unexpected dismissal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, followed by a threatened employee mutiny, followed by Microsoft’s fastest hire ever (I’m not sure that I believe that Sam cleared all the HR requirements in that time), followed by the reinstatement of Sam Altman as the CEO of OpenAI, has reignited a crucial conversation in the tech commun

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5 Pillars for Democratizing Data at Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Many companies have made becoming data-driven a goal, and yet many traditional organizations are still struggling to democratize data beyond the data experts. The authors state that companies must adopt a new management paradigm to truly democratize data, and offer 5 pillars to create a “data democracy”: 1) Broaden data access by rolling-out data catalogs and marketplaces, 2) stimulate the generation of data-driven insights through self-service, 3) level up data literacy with specific curricula

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How SnapLogic built a text-to-pipeline application with Amazon Bedrock to translate business intent into action

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post was co-written with Greg Benson, Chief Scientist; Aaron Kesler, Sr. Product Manager; and Rich Dill, Enterprise Solutions Architect from SnapLogic. Many customers are building generative AI apps on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon CodeWhisperer to create code artifacts based on natural language. This use case highlights how large language models (LLMs) are able to become a translator between human languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, and more) and machine interpretable languages (Python, Java,

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr